Daily post 16 Jan 2006 08:41 am
Dedini Dies
Monday: Yesterday was the birthday anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Today we commemorate it.
I like coming into my studio when no one else is here. It’s quiet and comfortable. Usually, also, the phone isn’t ringing so I can feel as if I’m getting a jump on my week’s work.
There’s an interesting and unusual photo of Walt Disney up at Jenny Lerew’s Blackwing Diaries. It’s not every day that you see the darker side of Disney in publicly released photos. Worth a look. (Note: I’ve corrected a malfunctioning link here. Sorry.)
Hoodwinked seems to be coming in near the top of the box office charts, having grossed more than $12 million in its first three days. So much for Michael Barrier‘s Jan. 9th posting which suggests producers might want to put their people all under one roof to make better films. The cgi folks have caught up to the 2D division of animation. It’s getting hard not to be cynical.
Just catching up with some NYTimes reading, I found Eldon Dedini‘s obit in Saturday’s paper. Odd that I was just looking at a couple of his early Playboy drawings yesterday in an old cartoonist’s collection I have. I have to admit, I was always more a Rowland Wilson fan. but you had to love Dedini’s juicy, fluid line. It always interested me that his work for the New Yorker seemed to have a completely different feel from those published in Playboy.
Mr. Dedini had recently had an exhibition of his work at the Sasoontsi Gallery in Salinas, Calif. to celebrate his forthcoming book, An Orgy of Playboy’s Dedini.
Book cover, “The Dedini Galleryâ€
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, pub., NY 1961
